Road-drag.



B. F. FINDLEY.

ROAD DRAG. APPLICATION flLED 050.20. 1916.

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` I APPLICATION FILED DEC.20. 1916. 1,224,728

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Patented May1,1917.

UNTTED TTE PTENT FFTQE,

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FINDL'EY, OF DENVER, IVIISS OURI.

ROAD-DRAG.

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Application fi1ed December 20, 1916.

To all witam 'it may camera:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FINDLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of VVorth and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Road-Drugs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is-an improved road drag for sera-ping and leveling roads, the'object of the invention being to provide an improved machine of this characterwhich einbodies means to adjust the blade at any desired angle to the line or draft and which also embodies means to permit the tilting of the blade to prevent injury thereto by stumps, stones, or the like and which further embodies means to raise and lower the blade and the front end of the drag and to permit the drag, when not in use to be reaclily moved from place to place.

The invention consists in the features of construction, combination, and arrangement of devices, hereinafter fully described and claimed. i

In the accompanying drawings:-

Figure 1 is a plan of a road drag constructed and arranged in accordance With my invention.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same partly in section.

Figs. 3 and 4 are detail sectional views of the same respectively on the planes indicated by the lines 3-3 and 4-4 of Fig. 1.

The blade 1 is provided with rounded lower corners 2 and is provided at its center at its upper side with a connecting element 3 having an eye which eye is engaged by the eye 5 of a similar connecting element 6 secured under the front end of the reach 7 hence the blade 'is connected to the front end of the reach for universal angular movement, so that the blade may be arranged in Vertical or in inclined position and may be also arranged at any desired angle with respect to the reach and the line of draft. A segment link 8 is slidably arranged on the reach and in aguide 9 and is provided with a series of adjusting openings 10, any one of which may be engaged by a securing pin 11. The ends of the segment link are connected to the blade by hinges 12. Hence the blade may be arranged and secured at any desired angle with respect to the line of draft.

The blade is provided at a point near its specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1, 1917.

Serial NO. 138,039.

center With an upwardly extending tilting lever 13. A cross lever lt is fulcrumed on the reach, as at 15 and has 1ts shorter'end connected to the lever' 13 by a link rod 16,

said link rod engages a clip 17, which passes around the lever' 13, the said clip being adjustable on the lever 13 and being held between a pair of collars 18, the said collars beingN adjustably secured by set screws 19. An angle lever 20 is also fulcrumed on the reach as at 21 and has arms 22, 23, the latter extending` outwardly to one side of the reach.. The arm 22 of the angle lever is connected lby a pair of links 211 to the longer arin of the lever 111. A. coiled retractile spring has one end secured to the reach as at 26 and has the other end 1ponnected as at 27 to the arin 23 of the angle ever.

It will be observed and understood that the levers 13, 14, 20 and their connections, normally hold the blade in the required upright position for operation, but permit the blade to turn rearwardly to an inclined position and to pass over stones, stumps, or the like, and thus avoid being' injured, the spring 25 in connection with said levers then restoring the blade to its initial operative position.

An axle 28 is secured near the rear end of the reach and extends from opposite sides thereof; A pair of disks 29 are mounted on the ends of the axle and are provided with boxings 30 on opposite sides.

These disks serve to prevent the drag from moving sidewise and serve to relieve draft. Fenders 31 are provided for the I also provide an axle 32 for the front portion of the drag, said aXle having supporting wheels 33 mounted thereon and being provided with an arched or crank portion 34 which is pivotally mounted in bearings 35 on the under side of the reach at a point a suitable distance from the front end of the latter. The arch axle has an upwardly extending lever 36. A hand lever 37 is pivotally mounted at its 'lower end as at 38 on a segment 39 which is secured to one side of the reach at a suitable point and said hand lever has a dog 40 of usual coni passes through and is slidably engagcd in a guide 42 which is secured on the hand lever. A spring 4:3 is arranged on the rear portion of the link 1'od and bears between an adj usting nut lt and the said guide so that said spring coacts with the levers and link red to yieldably hold the front arched axle in anr desired adjusted position. A stop 4:5 is provided on the link rod to limit the longitudi nal movement thereof. lt Will be understood that When the hand lever is operated, the aXle 32 may be raised or lowered as required to lower or l'aise the front end of the drag and the blade and hence the blade may be caused to operate at any desired depth and may be also raised completely out ot engagement With the surface of the road. to permit the drag to be readily transported ,from point to point.

A channel iron 46 is secured on the real' and is provided With a series of adjusting openings 47. The seat 48 has a standard 4=9 which may be secured by bolts 50 at an)7 desired longitudinal adj ustment, the said bolts engaging certain of the openings in the iron 47.

Having described the invention, What is claimed is:

1. In a drag, a supporting element, a blade connected to the supporting element for universal angular movement and provided near its center With an upstanding lever, a cross lever mounted on said supportinf;` element, a connection between one end of the cross lever and the lever of the blade, and a connecting means, including a cushioning spring between the other end of the cross lever and the supporting lever.

2. In a drag, a supporting element, a blade connected to the supporting` element for Vertical angular lnovement and provided With a lever, a cross lever mounted on said supporting element, eonnecting means between one end of the cross leVer and the le- Ver of the blade, an angular leVer mounted on said supporting element, a link connecting one arm of the angle lever to the cross level' and a cushioning spring attached to the other arm of the angle lever and also attached to the supporting element.

In testimony whereof I aifiX my signature.

. BEN. FINDLEY.

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